The Easy Way to Lose Weight (Allen Carr's Easyway)

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He also uses the word “brainwashed” a lot. We have been brainwashed to think a lot of things… the ultimate solution is, however, a new brainwashing. Everything he says is just to start believing something else. Start believing junk food is tasteless. Start believing sweets are bad. Change what you believe to fit the mindset of a healthy person and you will become healthy. It sounds simplistic, but I feel he has a point. A lot of food-related problems are emotional and changing the language we use with ourselves might help. Near the end of the book, he flips the script a bit on the rhetoric of "eating what you want" by reminding us that there is no need to exercise "as long as you eat what you're supposed to," which means "the foods intended for you by nature." So...not eating what you want, but by what "your nature" wants. And my body wants fresh chocolate chip banana bread, damn it. I could continue, but I won't, since this is supposed to be a book review. Suffice it to say that this factually inaccurate statement calls into question the rest of his assertions. He doesn't include footnotes or cite sources. So every time he says, "Your body works this way," I got more and more dubious. Sure, some of it I knew to be true, but a lot of it, I couldn't trust.

Monosaccharides, or the simplest unit of sugar, come in different chemical configurations, but each one has its own unique properties. Glucose is a monosaccharide and fructose is a monosaccharide. They (and other monosaccharides) combine to form di- and polysaccharides. Saying that fructose combines with stuff to create glucose is like saying that a neutron combines with stuff to create a proton, or flour combines with stuff to create eggs. That's just not how it works, period.As you see, Allen Carr’s diet book is not a diet book at all. It is a way to change your eating habits, a way to convince yourself you can lose weight and become healthy and happy with your shape. My main issue with it

which for me seems completely false. Processed food is actually designed to taste amazing. No one would buy it otherwise. However, the book says my thinking is part of the brainwashing, of the illusion – junk food doesn’t actually taste good. I am going to go through the book again and highlight only the parts that I find relevant. Maybe through doing this, I will be less distracted by the stuff I didn't connect with.I found that Allen Carr was very preachy in this novel. It did not move me as much as his easy way to quit smoking book did. He takes his recommendations too far and tells the reader that if you're going to revise your eating habits, you're going to have to change your diet to vegan. Non va mangiato nulla che sia sia amaro, o acre o fastidioso. Lui prende come esempi l'alcool, il caffè, il the, il cioccolato (in bacche) e mille altri alimenti, a me sorge spontaneo pensare però al radicchio, alla rucola, alle mandorle... questi andranno bene??! I found the regular reference to 'our creator' distracting, and lots of dubious comparisons were made between humans and machines, or humans and wild animals, etc. Some comparisons were valid, but others were shortsighted and disappointing; however, there was some really good stuff aswell. I just think that a lot of it could have been edited out to make the book speak to me better.